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💙 I love design – 1991 – Original vintage A0 Poster by Pierre Mendell / Die Neue Sammlung | Screenprint | 84.1 × 118.9cm
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💙 I love design – 1991 – Original vintage A0 Poster by Pierre Mendell / Die Neue Sammlung, Munich
Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst — a universal declaration in elemental form
Screenprint | 84.1 × 118.9 cm | Germany
🎬 Introduction
A quintessential Mendell reduction: a tall black bar, a saturated yellow circle, a bright red heart, and a tilted cobalt square drift across a clear white field. The sequence reads like a sentence—“I love design”—communicated entirely through geometry and color. Commissioned by Die Neue Sammlung, Munich’s museum of applied arts, the piece translates institutional didactics into pure visual grammar that is legible at distance and witty up close.
Printed as a large A0 screenprint, the inks register as flat, dense planes with the tiny edge undulations that betray hand-pulled serigraphy. The composition nods to Bauhaus pedagogy and the International Typographic Style while retaining the warmth that defined Studio Mendell & Oberer’s work for Munich’s cultural scene.
✨ Why It Matters
This poster epitomizes late-20th-century museum graphics: concise, multilingual by design, and instantly memorable. Mendell & Oberer’s program for Die Neue Sammlung produced some of Europe’s most collectible institutional posters; this 1991 statement piece is a favorite for its primary palette, elemental syntax, and pedagogical clarity. At A0 scale it functions as both signage and artwork, bridging identity design and exhibition graphics. Screenprinted production and museum provenance enhance desirability, while the subject—design itself—creates crossover appeal for modernist, Bauhaus-oriented, and graphic design history collections.
📐 Poster Details
- Year: 1991
- Country: Germany
- Size: 84.1 × 118.9 cm
- Format: DIN A0
- Studio / Publisher: Studio Mendell & Oberer; for Die Neue Sammlung, Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, München
- Designer: Pierre Mendell (Studio Mendell & Oberer)
🔎 Condition
Good vintage condition with light handling creases and a few small stains consistent with age. Colors remain strong and the sheet presents cleanly; frames beautifully. Shipped safely rolled in a sturdy tube.
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Specifications
ConditionGoodColorsBlue, Yellow, RedMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationLandscapeArt sizeLargeHeight84 cmWidth119 cmSigns of usageDiscoloring
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About this seller
Berlin, GermanyOn Whoppah since August 2023 • 12 sales